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Am I a bad customer or are real estate agents in southern europe lazy?

I've experienced this in several countries in southern europe: Malta, Italy, Croatia and now Slovenia. It's not great where I live (Sweden) and they have their own little price fixing methods but at least they work hard in providing any documents and information. Also by law they have to represent both sides (different from some countries where each side hires their own.).

Anyway for me buying or even renting a house long term is one of the biggest investments/costs you can incur. So I like to ask tough questions.

Currently being ghosting by two real estate agents for in the most polite way possible asking things like:

"What's the situation of the property around the house, who owns it, do you or the owner know?"

"What is the situation of the work that's not completed yet, is there a project plan, can you send me it?"

"Any known issues or faults of the house?"

Got a part answer from one of them of 3 sentences and he didn't even send me more pictures or a plan of the house he's selling.

Are people not asking these kind of questions out of politeness? Are real estate agents just not willing to put in the work? Is there something else?

I'm thinking of going over the head of one of them. I just google-mapped myself to the house and thinking of calling the owner directly. As I'm not referred by him I'm thinking that can save us both money.

Would you find such a call good or bad if it came from a potential buyer? Would you feel comfortable?

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